Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.